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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The New Death Factories.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the SS men assembled about 2,000 people to the crematorium yard in Chapter 3, what did one man lead the people to do?
(a) Resist.
(b) Scream.
(c) Pray.
(d) Run.

2. What was Vacek's first victim's handicap?
(a) His right hand was paralyzed.
(b) He was partially deaf.
(c) He was missing his right leg.
(d) He had a limp.

3. What happened to the gold teeth pulled from the mouths of those gassed?
(a) They were sent to the Nazi front ranks.
(b) They were hoarded by the SS.
(c) Most of them were organized by the Sonderkommando.
(d) They were melted and formed into bars.

4. Why were the SS men so concerned when they saw the bodies in the pit in the daylight?
(a) The bodies were swollen and hard to look at.
(b) The water in the pit was rising and the bodies were not buried.
(c) They didn't think Filip and the others were stong enough to bury the dead.
(d) The bodies were extremely slippery.

5. What did the so-called representative of the Foreign Ministry tell the crowd they could not leave without?
(a) Their clean clothing.
(b) A letter of introduction.
(c) A certificate of disinfection.
(d) A haircut.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Vacek order to be done with the tea that the prisoners were to drink?

2. Why were the prisoners so concerned about lice?

3. How long did it take a prisoner's body to burn in the oven?

4. When one of the Sonderkommandos told a woman he recognized that she was about to be gassed to death, what did she do?

5. What genre does the story fall into?

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